At the Top of Her Game

By

Alexander Eule

September 29, 2012

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Kimberley Hatchett isn't one for taking the easy route. As an Olympic hopeful in the early 1980s, she specialized in the 400-meter hurdles, among track and field's most grueling events and far from its most glamorous. "No one wants to be a 400 hurdler…it's torture," Hatchett says. "You really have to dig deep over those last couple of hurdles."

Hatchett, who'd been an all-American athlete at the University of Virginia and stands nearly six feet tall, was as ready as anyone for that challenge. She once cleared...

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